We left Hyderabad very early in the morning. We were taking 2 flights to get to Calcutta through Raipur. The airport in Raipur is similar to what the Abbotsford airport used to be- 2 gates and walk onto the planes via the stairs attached to the plane. We had to deplane and get onto a different one in about 20 minutes so we saw only the airport. We arrived in Calcutta around 1:00 and were met by another OM worker. He was so pleasant and delighted that we were there. In Calcutta there are far fewer OM workers and they rarely have visitors.
We went straight to our hotel and were glad to have a home base. We decided that Calcutta is like Hyderabad heightened. It takes Hyderabad to the extreme. The cars were more plentiful, the pollution was more visible, the dogs were more vicious. We were glad to have started in the less crazy city in order to have time to adjust to the country.
We had a bit of time in the hotel and then we went a dinner experience. Dinner was in a mall, which in itself was a shock to our systems that were no longer used to North American-esque culture, but to get into the mall we had to go through a metal detector and rather thorough scan, ladies on one side, gents on the other.
The restaurant we went to was like none I had ever been to. It was a buffet, however, when we were all seated they replaced a piece in the table with a coal grill and started bringing our chicken and lamb and veggies and fish on skewers. We were all pretty hungry having eaten only power bars for breakfast and lunch. We were really mowing down. Shortly into shoveling the food down the hole, the word came down the line that this was just the appetizers… we all slowed down after that. The buffet was pretty delicious as well but I think that we all enjoyed the appetizers the most.
We rolled back to the hotel, and went to bed.
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